Housing

McBains Cooper focuses on the needs of Clients in the Private Residential and Social Housing sectors. We have considerable experience in advising private investors, funders, developers, local authorities, and registered social landlords on all aspects of their property portfolios.

Social Housing

McBains Cooper has a long established track record of working with Local Authorities and Housing Associations in providing quality affordable housing throughout the UK.

The market has and will continue to change rapidly in this sector. Working with Local Authorities and Housing Associations McBains Cooper continually adapts its approach to advise and support housing initiatives. Our market expertise has been maintained and expanded by being flexible and responding to changing needs.

The challenge for Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) is now to achieve maximum impact on priority housing needs against a background of reduced public funding. This has led to new initiatives such as Market Rents, Urban Regeneration through various grants, private finance and diversification into new market sector developments. Creation of finance in these ways enables RSLs to continue to provide affordable housing but with less Central Government support and control.

Where appropriate, McBains Cooper's inter-disciplinary approach provides a single point of Client contact for all services on new build, refurbishment and alteration projects. McBains Cooper has been involved in schemes that have been accepted by the Department of Environment and Transport and the Regions (DETR) as 'Best Practice Projects'.

Our work across a range of Social Housing areas includes:

• Housing Associations
• Affordable Housing Development Schemes
• Key Worker / Student Accommodation
• Care Homes
• Mixed Development Schemes
• Urban Regeneration